Pavel Tatashin
27227c7338
Memory hotplug and hotremove operate with per-block granularity. If the
machine has a large amount of memory (more than 64G), the size of a
memory block can span multiple sections. By mistake, during hotremove
we set only the first section to offline state.
The bug was discovered because kernel selftest started to fail:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180423011247.GK5563@yexl-desktop
After commit, "mm/memory_hotplug: optimize probe routine". But, the bug
is older than this commit. In this optimization we also added a check
for sections to be in a proper state during hotplug operation.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180427145257.15222-1-pasha.tatashin@oracle.com
Fixes: 2d070eab2e ("mm: consider zone which is not fully populated to have holes")
Signed-off-by: Pavel Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Steven Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <daniel.m.jordan@oracle.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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